Book: Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

Paperback, 1986. Satire, parody, picaresque. This copy is in excellent vintage condition, particularly for its age. Minor cosmetic wear and a remainder mark on the edge (see pics), but no rips, no scribbles, no dog-ears. I'm including the Cliffs Notes (great condition, no marks or tears) but if you don't want that booklet just let me know and I'll donate it locally. "Through their own innocence and guilelessness, Joseph and Parson Adams expose the hypocrisy and fakeness of others. As they wander the land, they get in and out of trouble with some of the great comic figures of literature: Mr. Barnabas, Lady Booby, Mrs. Slipslop, Mr. Tow-wouse, and Fanny. This was written in 1742 as a reaction against Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. It begins as a burlesque of that novel but the parody soon becomes secondary, and it develops into a masterpiece of sustained irony and social criticism of the time. A fusion of two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: the mock-heroic neoclassical approach of such writers as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson." I had to read this for a course on Humor in Classic 18c Literature. I found it fascinating back then, but no longer have time nowadays to reread everything. ⏰⌛👀